Elochukwu Ezenekwe. Cmc, Fellow Imc. Email & Phone Number

• Skilfully direct the strategic planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, reporting and documentation of assigned projects, including the Climate Change Education and Action Program (CLEAP), the Sustainable.
• Establish and maintain relationship with national and subnational government executives and policy makers, nongovernmental organizations, civil society organizations, the United Nations Volunteers Programme (UNV).
• Contribute to fundraising efforts, identifying partnership opportunities, developing strategy, and actively supporting implementation of fundraising actions.
• Participate in budget planning, management and reporting, direct the recruitment and management of staff, and oversee general office management.
• Write reports, prepare templates, oversee communications and the production of information, education and communication (IEC) materials, and efficiently handle other tasks.
• Ensure gender responsiveness and mainstreaming of gender concerns in all assigned projects.

• Work with local communities and lead the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of climate change adaptation strategies that include:- Local technologies: using local technologies such as umi (water.
• Deliver tailored climate change education to a variety of audience, including village heads, community youth groups, students in secondary and tertiary institutions, university lecturers and professors, government.
• Develop Climate Change advocacy strategies and conduct awareness campaigns to educate the general public

• Direct the Sustainable Aquaculture Supply in West and Central Africa (SASWeCA) project, a partnership initiative to help boost fish production, promote climate change adaptation of marine biodiversity, and tackle food.
• Lead the design and implementation of research, and coordinate with partners and vital stakeholders for dissemination, adoption, and uptake of research findings.
• Coordinate the training of installation and maintenance technicians to enhance adoption and proliferation of mobile tarpaulin fishponds.

• Monitor national legislation and activities in the WASH sector to inform advocacy plans.
• Develop and implement advocacy strategies to raise awareness about the importance of WASH in public health and climate resilience.
• Oversee the technical design and construction of electric powered boreholes for the promotion of WASH in Nigeria and lead the evaluation of progress through outputs and impacts.

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

• Conducted evaluation of submitted grant proposals and carried out feasibility studies on those shortlisted.
• Handled overall project management, progress monitoring, and commissioning/handover.
• Wrote lots of reports, prepared templates and updated existing project-related documentation, handled communication with partners and managed data.
• Assisted with resolving misunderstandings and disputes, and recovering grant funds that are trapped.
• Established and managed relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, including nongovernmental and civil society organizations, national government officials, the media, vendors and contractors, shipping companies.
• Identified risks and proffered solutions to ensure compliance with extant policies and best practices.

Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria

Built capacity and offered tailored advice around climate change to the Anambra State Ministry of Environment in order to mainstream climate change and biodiversity concerns into the activities of the Anambra State government via the Ministry.

Anambra State

• Objective:Gather data and support the Monitoring and Evaluation of YIIFSWA (Yam Improvement for Income and Food Security in Africa), a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-sponsored project being delivered by the IITA.
• Directly supervised four data enumerators for data collection activities in 12 communities spread across various local government areas of Edo and Enugu States
• Actively contributed to feasibility plan of project areas ahead of visits and work
• Led familiarity visits to community heads and organized community sensitization seminars
• Effectively monitored and evaluated the YIIFSWA project undertaken in Anambra State
• Prepared and wrote weekly technical reports

IPCC WG II • Technical Support Unit, 260 Panama Street Stanford, CA 94305, USA

• Worked for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) where local expertise and knowledge was offered to contribute to the global knowledge to support the world’s climate change body.
• Undertook an expert review of the Contribution of the Working Group II (WGII) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5): "Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and.
• Ensured that the second-order draft chapters provided a balanced and comprehensive assessment of the latest scientific findings associated with the approved outline

Developed Climate Change advocacy strategies and successfully conducted campaigns in various states across the norther and southern regions of Nigeria, such as Benue, Abuja, Anambra, Akwa Ibom and Rivers States of Nigeria.

Effectively delivered climate change education to the general public through the media (radio and television programs).Organized educative climate change sessions for students in universities and secondary schools and helped to set up environment clubs.Effectively delivered tailored climate change education to village heads and leaders of communities.

Pioneered a research that strongly linked climate change as a contributory factor to the gully erosion activities ravaging agricultural lands, livelihoods, houses, roads, electricity lines and school buildings in Nanka and other communities in Anambra state and across the South-East of Nigeria.

• Assisted in the design and production of Information, Education and communication materials related to the Millennium Development Goals
• Facilitated grassroots sensitization on climate change
• Facilitated grassroots HIV/AIDS testing and Counseling
• Helped in the planning and implementation of tree planting projects under the Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Environment

Master Of Engineering (M.Eng.)

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.)